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Old 06-10-2012, 06:02 AM   #3121
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Entertaining Sci-fi movie after sometime, Rated it 4. But i dont think it will be a masterpiece or classic in the coming years unless they expand the universe with a great sequel. Unanswered questions are all fine, but i only have trouble with characters.
[Show spoiler]Apart from Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender, others are there just for numbers . While watching the movie i didn't care who dies or not. Charlize Theron's character is a absolute disaster, even when she died it served no purpose. I expected her to be alive after she escapes from the Prometheus ship. I feel if Noomi and Charlize went off with Fassbender that would have been brilliant.

Overall a great movie, could have been much more if there were better characters.
P.S. : I am yet to watch any of the Alien movies, so i had no big expectations.
Hogwash! Alien became a masterpiece all on it's own. I think in 10 years we will look back and see the greatness for what it is.
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Old 06-10-2012, 06:18 AM   #3122
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Good movie. Not great due to script flaws. I enjoyed it.
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Old 06-10-2012, 06:48 AM   #3123
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Hogwash! Alien became a masterpiece all on it's own. I think in 10 years we will look back and see the greatness for what it is.
Are you serious? Alien was a masterpiece because it was so different and innovative in horror techniques and a great script.

Prometheus is a film that was supposed to elaborate on the universe but instead just became a movie of questions. Instead of being more informed, I'm just more lost and I blame Damon. I heard he pissed Lost fans off and then pulled the same crap here. A
[Show spoiler]nd seriously what the hell is the sequel going to do? Shaw's going to fight the space jockeys? One space jockey beat the shit out of like 5 humans and killed them. And then the Jockey/mohawk dude hybrid also took out like 5 guys before being burned. Imagine a whole planet of them? It's stupid. And one minor qualm, if Shaw sent out a message to not come here, why the hell did that ship before Ripley's ship come and send out that distress signal and wouldn't the ship in any of the sequel Aliens get it at least?


I thought the film was interesting but it just made no profound effect on me, it was a bit predictable and really didn't bring anything new to the table and just left me wanting more, like the film finally started in the last half hour.


[Show spoiler]Also Charlize Theron's character shouldn't have died an awful death like that, she wasn't at all evil. She was tough hearted and willing to make the tough call and even when she kills Holloway he agrees with the death. Instead in the end she comes off like a bad guy who deserved the death. It made the character absolutely pointless.

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Old 06-10-2012, 07:52 AM   #3124
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I loved it going to see it again tomorrow. The 3d was stunning.
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Old 06-10-2012, 08:00 AM   #3125
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I disagree with ever one of your critiques. The story was great if you could follow. I'm not saying you couldn't but I enjoyed it. Character development was what it needed to be for a sci-fi movie and if you were patient everything was explained. Really I was leaving for a 4.5 but decided to round up. Loved it.
I followed the story perfectly, and it was still a pile of horse manure.

The plot was incredibly simple, but due to the lousy writing and choppy editing it could be argued that it came across as complicated to those who couldn't follow it.

Character development - what character development? There wasn't any - instead we had a bunch of cardboard cutouts who I didn't give a damn about (except for Fassbender as David).

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Old 06-10-2012, 08:07 AM   #3126
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I followed the story perfectly, and it was still a pile of horse manure.

Character development - what character development? There wasn't any - instead we had a bunch of cardboard cutouts who I didn't give a damn about (except for Fassbender as David).
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Old 06-10-2012, 09:01 AM   #3127
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Great actors bailing out poor scripts, sounds a lot like LOST

Lindelof shouldn't be writing anything
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Old 06-10-2012, 09:05 AM   #3128
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Great actors bailing out poor scripts, sounds a lot like LOST

Lindelof shouldn't be writing anything
Except a formal announcement that he is immediately retiring from the TV and film industry.
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Old 06-10-2012, 09:43 AM   #3129
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So disappointing. Visually it's fantastic and Michael Fassbender is tremendous, as usual, but the story just wasn't there.

Awkward comedic relief, characters doing the dumbest things, characters I mostly didn't care for, the film is kind of a mess.
Totally agree.

Characters doing dumb stuff, pretty much zero characterisation, poor script... However Fassbender was amazing and the visuals (as with most of Ridley's films) were superb.
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Old 06-10-2012, 09:45 AM   #3130
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I thought the film was interesting but it just made no profound effect on me, it was a bit predictable and really didn't bring anything new to the table and just left me wanting more, like the film finally started in the last half hour.
This sums up my opinion pretty accurately. Way too many holes in the script, too many useless characters and useless scenes. And I had to see it in 3D because I went to the IMAX showing, and the 3D had nothing special.
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Old 06-10-2012, 10:35 AM   #3131
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what were the engineers running from ?
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Their black goo substance that went horribly wrong.
I don't think they were running from the black goo. If you pay attention, the engineer that gets beheaded by the door tried to run into the room with the urns.
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Old 06-10-2012, 10:43 AM   #3132
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too many useless characters and useless scenes.
I think you're confusing this with Aliens (1986).
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Old 06-10-2012, 11:39 AM   #3133
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Prometheus is not as intelligent as it attempts to be but one has to wonder if this was the film Ridley Scott had intended because judging from Scott's notoriety for releasing differing alternate cuts, I am eagerly anticipating a Director's Cut to see how much more meat the film would have had had it been longer. However as it stands, Prometheus works incredibly well as a science-fiction thriller. There are many intense sequences that will leave you pulling back from the screen with unease and while it takes a little while to find its momentum, there is never a dull moment in Prometheus. It is an incredibly watchable film to watch and possibly rewatch to figure out the unanswered questions in the film. There is no guarantee that answers will be provided but without a doubt, this film will surely generate conversations and discussions on fan-boards for years to come.


4/5.

Posted a full review on my blog.
If I read right in the interview he said they cut 17 minutes from the film.
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Old 06-10-2012, 11:45 AM   #3134
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If I read right in the interview he said they cut 17 minutes from the film.
No he didn't - the '17 minutes cut' was from an interview a few months ago, and that was referring to another of his films.

However, in a recent interview with Theron and Fassbender, they mentioned that they thought 27 minutes had been cut.
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Old 06-10-2012, 11:46 AM   #3135
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The 2-D version is playing on my theatre's biggest screen. I really need to see it before it's not anymore.

Yesterday at work, some dude in the break room was talking about how we saw it Friday night and then went into full blown spoilers. I'm like, are you serious? I had to leave the room after I heard
[Show spoiler]"head explosion."


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Old 06-10-2012, 11:54 AM   #3136
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So disappointing. Visually it's fantastic and Michael Fassbender is tremendous, as usual, but the story just wasn't there.

Awkward comedic relief, characters doing the dumbest things, characters I mostly didn't care for, the film is kind of a mess.
There were a lot of mistakes with the editing also.

[Show spoiler]Anyone who is planning to see the movie again, watch the scene when the mohawk character comes back to the ship. The merc is possibly killed then is with Weyland later in the movie.

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Old 06-10-2012, 12:19 PM   #3137
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Thought this was interesting footage of Damon Lindelof. Interviewer asks if he knows the answers to the questions in Prometheus:

start at 17:10
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Old 06-10-2012, 12:28 PM   #3138
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I'm surprised that Scott didn't use Russell Crowe as Weyland. Seems to be in most of his movies now anyway.

I'm lost - Who/What is
[Show spoiler]the Sacriface Engineer?
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I gave it 4/5 but really rate it a strong 3.5/5.

I really enjoyed the movie and heres a list of my likes and dislikes. Kind of a long read I guess, sorry.

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- Okay. Shaw gets impregnated with the alien and David puts her out to get her ready for cryosleep. He leaves and two other doctors take over. She wakes up, knocks both of them out with a blunt object, runs to the surgical pod and has the alien removed...stumbles down the hallway a bloody mess and finds a group of people (including Weyland) and after all this happens no-one thinks to mention "hey uuuhhh...Shaw? Say, what happened to that ALIEN that was inside of you?" and the two people she knocked out didnt seem concerned with WHY they got knocked out to begin with had the possiblity of them not knowing about the alien been a factor.
[Show spoiler] I saw it as Weyland was top priority and now that he was up and mobile their orders/priorities changed and Shaw was the least of their worries.
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[Show spoiler]Honest question, what's the difference between Milburn and Kane? Why isn't anyone upset that Kane stuck his head inside an egg, but we're all butt hurt about Milburn wanting to play with the "Cobra"? Did we know that something was going t jump out and attack Kane, no. Did know the Cobra was going to attack Milburn, be honest, no!!
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